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“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman The scenes depicted in today’s shots actually didn’t actually look very much like these presented photo. In general, I screw around...
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“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Does a humble narrator ever leave Queens or Brooklyn? Not if one can help it, but of late, Manhattan’s demands have been omnipresent....
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follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Shortly after leaving the East River Ferry at 2nd street in Long Island City the other day, and having found a convenient and quite...
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“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Declination and Altitude. These are two concepts referenced and always mentioned when I’m conducting a walking tour around Newtown...
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“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Missives regarding the Newtown Creek reach my desk all the time, mostly describing activist causes and far reaching governmental...
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“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman On Sunday -the 26th of May- the Working Harbor Committee is producing and offering a boat tour of the Newtown Creek for any interested...
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“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman One such as myself is drawn to certain locales normally shunned by the teeming masses of the vast human hive. Obsessive, my long...
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“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Blissville, USA. Found at the crux of the main body of Newtown Creek and its atavist tributary known simply as “Dutch Kills,” Sims...
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“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Vast precautions were advised in this section of the Queens Terminal of Sims Metal Management by its employees, as literally tons of...
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“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman The site walk through which Sims Metal Management offered me was just coming to an end when the car carrier, pictured above, arrived....
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In today’s post- a vehicle accident in DUPBO, LIC. - photo by Mitch Waxman Happily perambulating upon Jackson Avenue in venerable Hunter Point recently, a cacophony of automotive horns heralded my...
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Today’s post takes a walk around Long Island City. - photo by Mitch Waxman Having a few minutes to kill, your humble narrator will often wind up wandering all about the neighborhoods, and Hunters Point...
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Today’s post depicts twilit scenery in Western Queens. - photo by Mitch Waxman One of my winter projects continues, which is called by the ineluctably unimaginative name “operation: night shooting.”...
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Today’s post shows you how to wash a dirty locomotive. - photo by Mitch Waxman Hanging about and walking around Queens with a friend one afternoon, our path carried us up Skillman Avenue and past the...
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Today’s post points out that you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. - photo by Mitch Waxman You may have noticed that I’ve not been posting too much about my beloved Newtown Creek of late, which...
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Today’s post is of an entirely pedestrian manner. - photo by Mitch Waxman For about a year, I’ve been noticing this odd pattern all around the Newtown Pentacle, wherein a seemingly discarded single...
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Walking in DUPBO, Down Under the Pulaski Bridge Onramp, in today’s post. -photo by Mitch Waxman A dish has two sides, as my dad would remind me whenever my chores included washing dishes, as does my...
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Another industrial corridor, just another day in Queens. -photo by Mitch Waxman Clinging to queer ideations about the storied past, and to the ceramic bricks of the former Swingline factory on Skillman...
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Want to see something cool? Bring a camera, and follow me. - photo by Mitch Waxman When I decided to start doing walking tours of the Newtown Creek watershed a few years ago, I found myself presented...
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Fearful and frightful, be afraid… be very, very afraid. - photo by Mitch Waxman Sometimes you scare yourself, I know that I do, but then again I’m a fairly scary person- or so I’ve been told by those...
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